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From: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu>
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Subject: Re: mysql-server-4.1.0_1 refuse to start on 5.1
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On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 09:07:29AM +0200, Mats Larsson wrote:
> 
> perms on var:
> 
> marvin# ls -la / | grep var
> drwxr-xr-x  20 root  wheel   512 Jul 16 20:51 var
> 
> Getting the same error even if a do a chmod 777 on /var, guess something
> is fucked up totaly.
> 
> the server is started from the default script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/
> which starts the db with --user=mysql
MySQL 4.1 is still in alpha so perhaps it's better to use 4.0 for now?
We're using it with no problems on fbsd 5.0.
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Jez

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